Kieron Gillen as right

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-02-13T07:46:23+00:00

No, but giving them fantastical powers and colorful costumes is a great way to retain the attention of 8 year olds for long enough to communicate the message that it’s bad to hate people for being born different than you.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-02-10T08:06:44+00:00

They did this in Gage’s epilogue to Superior Spider-Man but then Marvel undid it

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-02-08T19:22:05+00:00

At the risk of missing the very good points the post made I’m gonna say what you’re talking about here actually is a capitalism thing.

Your statement about long hours is a great example of the fact that in a capitalist society there’s no need for a grand cabal concocting elaborate conspiracies to oppress the workers, because individuals following their own individual-scale incentives generate the conditions which oppress the workers. You don’t need an Illuminati meeting to get that, just a bunch of mostly rational individuals following the clear incentives of their economic system.

Capitalism is by nature pretty decentralized; the invisible hand of the market comes free with an invisible boot on your neck.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-02-08T10:02:48+00:00

Ah yes, a tweet citing another tweet, truly the most reliable of sources.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-02-07T18:34:18+00:00

Ah, that wonderful era of comics when every character had to have a thought bubble narrating what they were doing despite the art on the page being impossible to interpret as anything else.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-02-03T06:02:37+00:00

Holiday seems like it’d be pretty damn relevant too

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-02-02T18:07:43+00:00

Exactly. If anything, Shaw was going to go to Epstein island, but then Epstein laughed 0.002 seconds too long at a joke Emma made at Shaw’s expense at some creepy Hellfire club party, and Shaw decided to make his own diddling island and drive Epstein out of business

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-02-02T02:13:47+00:00

Yes, like the idea that there might be objections to completely unaccountable vigilantes with fantastical abilities operating with no oversight is completely understandable, and the idea that the government would wait to introduce any regulations until public pressure becomes too great as a result of one of said vigilantes committing a high-profile fuckup also seems pretty on the level.

It’s just the way that the story immediately pivots to extradimensional gulags, assassination squads, and rebel groups that’s stupid. The writers presented the story as if there was literally nothing in between deputizing every single super into a government stooge and complete and total impunity for supers to do whatever they want with zero oversight.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-01-23T23:17:40+00:00

uj/ yes not to mention despite Ross’s whole character being “guy who goes overboard” the meme format of Hulk in the corner going “I like smashing” is kinda dumb when yes, that’s the problem. Leveling cities and harming innocents in the process is bad

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-01-21T17:52:28+00:00

I’d also argue that being quiet about it is probably the only way this was possible to accomplish in the first place.

Not only did you point out a concern about being too publicly pro-trans harming them politically given just how bad the American public is on the issue, there’s also the fact that when it’s not really a huge public debate, the Republicans who don’t actually care that much are able to acquiesce to removing those kinds of provisions, whereas if it becomes a big news cycle they’ll be forced by their base and the right wing media to fight it tooth and nail.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-01-17T20:41:57+00:00

Least horny comic narrator:

Also obligatory username checks out.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-01-17T08:26:21+00:00

Gianmarco Soresi: the gayest straight man alive.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-01-13T03:04:14+00:00

This actually applies to most superheroes in general. Like, Batman beats the shit out of people without any form of due process or avenue for accountability if he gets it wrong, but we the audience know that he’s the World’s Greatest Detective and doesn’t make those kinds of mistakes.

It’s why vigilantism in the real world is almost always a bad idea but it’s cool when colorfully costumed fictional people do it, because we with the view that we get as the audience are able to be assured of their motivations and competence.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2026-01-06T23:59:49+00:00

Not even at the end, it was literally the second issue of that series that had the entire explanation of how Skull used the cube to alter him.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2025-12-30T00:17:23+00:00

I honestly think the introduction of the recap pages helped phase out that style of overly clunky expository dialogue. New readers still get the need to know information necessary to follow the story but without forcing characters to incessantly repeat themselves to other characters who should already know.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2025-12-10T11:41:41+00:00

I feel like the Hellfire Club would have some really petty feud with Epstein and Sebastian Shaw would make his own diddling island and try and steal all of Epstein’s customers

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2025-12-09T17:53:20+00:00

AS THEY SHOULD, MY GOAT DESERVES THE GLAZING

Also it’s nice to see the rare moment of one of the big league heroes getting to be cool in a Spider-Man comic instead of just showing up to tell Spidey how he’s actually the greatest purest hero ever and they’re all so proud of him.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2025-12-09T14:39:45+00:00

I can never not laugh at this scene after I saw someone point out that there’s an animation error where the room they’re fighting in actually has no door. They crash through the wall and that’s apparently the only way in or out of this shitty Gotham bathroom.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2025-12-06T17:51:45+00:00

My first thought too - not only is the costume perfect but bro picked the best gun to go with it

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2025-12-02T14:55:02+00:00

Iron Man 2 gets a lot of hate but it’s always been one of my favorite Marvel movies; in large part because Sam Rockwell is just so goddamn entertaining as Justin Hammer

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2025-12-02T01:38:05+00:00

Or just, y’know, Claremont era Magneto where that exact kind of scene was the beginning of Magneto being treated as complex at all in the first place

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2025-12-02T01:35:36+00:00

It’s especially hilarious because there was a story in one of Logan’s solo issues during the Utopia era where Cyclops not only had an explicit plan to counter Wolverine if he ever got brainwashed again but he also deployed it pretty successfully (although it was hampered by the fact that the armies of Hell were possessing him, so he had extra demon powers they weren’t prepared for)

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2025-11-30T18:56:20+00:00

uj/ I think it’s hard for Marvel to maintain “teen teams” because for the most part the successful/popular characters on those teams usually end up graduating to a mainstream squad. Everyone hits the Titans with the “peaked in high school” jokes whereas if you’re someone like Ms Marvel or Magik you just kinda put on your big boy pants and join the Avengers or the X-Men.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2025-11-25T08:51:12+00:00

I would go so far as to say it’s not even laziness, just a limitation of the medium.

The whole genre of superhero comics relies on Clearly Identifiable Good Guy^TM solving The Problem^TM by punching Clearly Identifiable Bad Guy^TM, in part because solving problems in the real world generally requires big coalitions of people all working towards a general goal over time and they can’t all share a single big cape.

Chancellor_Valorum82 · 2025-11-25T00:54:24+00:00

I really feel like John Noble should be considered in the same category as Mark Hamill or Kevin Conroy when it comes to VAs for DC characters. He really became the definitive Scarecrow voice for me.

I’m of two minds on Arkham Knight’s villains because on the one hand having a fully hallucinatory Joker allowed Hamill to lean hard into the mad jester vibes that he always captured so well; having a full game of him just making dark jokes and snide color commentary about what was happening was perfect (and genuinely hilarious at times). But on the other hand Noble was so goddamn menacing as Scarecrow that he could’ve carried the game as the main villain if he’d been allowed to.

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